From June this year in the Messages folder more and more new files appear. Each month more frequentry these new files are generated. Now a new file is created merely each second. The files are either "*.ctb" or *.mail*. The interesting thing is that there are no new posts or any other activity in the forum (checking the lastmodified argument). Checking in the activity log of our site we found that each file is generated when a bot crawls it. For instance:

The same threadID... Bing has crawled this topic, and a new ctb file was generated. Why?

Please help. I do not know which is the reason, but this is not normal i think. Sometimes there are 10-15 files generated in 1 second - "*.mail" The *.ctb are generated each second, or at longest each minute.Mostly the bots are Googlebot, Mail.ru, Yandex.ru, MJ12bot, Bingbot...

Please help. I do not know which is the reason, but this is not normal i think. Sometimes there are 10-15 files generated in 1 second - "*.mail" The *.ctb are generated each second, or at longest each minute.

this is normal as when a member makes a post or adds a notification on a new post then the files are written to.

I will have to check this but yes when a guests or members or bots visit a post then the info file for that post *.ctb will have the 'views',"0" info updated to 'views',"1" and so on.

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Re: A new file each second in Messages folderReply #2 - Sep 24th, 2013 at 6:32am

StPenchev wrote Yesterday at 3:10pm:Please help. I do not know which is the reason, but this is not normal i think. Sometimes there are 10-15 files generated in 1 second - "*.mail" The *.ctb are generated each second, or at longest each minute.

xnoddyx: this is normal as when a member makes a post or adds a notification on a new post then the files are written to.

Reply - But there is no new post, no change on the current post?I think you are right - the new .ctb is generated with the increase of views...

The interesting think is that before June there was no such an activity, and no such a great quantity of new files written in this folder. Or the old are deleted ?

Re: A new file each second in Messages folderReply #3 - Sep 24th, 2013 at 11:55am

Hi StPenchev

I checked with Development what I got back wasQuote:

your bot list has gotten emptied or corrupted so bots are being identified as guests. And since bots go through everything they can reach, they're triggering things they shouldn't be able to trigger.

here is a copy of a bot list from this post download bots.hosts.txt on your computer rename it to bots.hosts in cgi-bin/yabb2/Variables/ on your host look for bots.hosts and remove this then upload the new one to cgi-bin/yabb2/Variables/ and CHMOD the file to 644

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

Thank you for your help.All is done.Now i will expect the results If the problem persists, i will write.Thank you again.

it is cool and hope it was of help to you and that your forum is running good for you once again.

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)